When choosing a baby monitor for your family, it’s important to ask yourself what you value most. Consider your options when it comes to choosing the right baby monitor and do your research to ensure you make the right decision for you and your bub!

Key Points
• Sleep is cyclical with multiple episodes of arousal followed by a return to sleep
• Sleep achievement is in part cue dependent
• Cues of sleep are learned can be altered and then relearned
• Sleep achievement and sleep maintenance are usefully regarded as learned skills
• Avoid children becoming over tired as this interferes with the learned skill of sleep
• Minimise cues of sleep achievement that are parent dependent (be ‘Parent lite’).

This talk aims to equip parents to have their babies sleep at their best. It is obviously important for us as parents to be getting sleep but it is even more important for our babies to be getting the sleep they need.

For most parents and their babies this is a phase that seems to settle with time. However some babies graduate to become life-long committed insomniacs. Dr Jonny Taitz provides some rules for sleep that he found helpful.

Establishing a sleeping routine for your baby is essential. How can we let our baby know when it is time to sleep? Most parents will know about swaddling and preparing a comfortable sleeping environment. However, there is another very effective way to settle a baby and it is with the help of white noise.

This talk explores why babies cry, strategies to soothe them, tired cues, how much sleep to expect, sleep cycles, and many other helpful settling tips to ultimately support you and your baby to develop a great sleep routine that can be used effectively in your home.

Emma Lovell of Fly Babee discusses the importance of making your child laugh, helping them feel secure and setting up an all-important sleep routine that will help the whole family get the sleep they need.